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Laurence Fishburne reads a stark warning from W. E. B. Du Bois

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As the Cold War deepened in 1953, celebrated writer and activist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote a letter to The Tribune newspaper and made his feelings known.

Laurence Fishburne joined to read this letter at Letters Live in New York City in May 2026.

Courtesy of The Du Bois Literary Estate, Odell Murry, Trustee. © the Du Bois Literary Estate

Gafanhotos devoradores que por onde passam deixam rastros de morte e destruição

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Os coronéis paranaenses que atrasam o desenvolvimento das crianças e o progresso da comunidade, são os mesmos que a cada dois anos se colocam como “representantes do povo”.

Gafanhotos devoradores que por onde passam deixam rastros de morte e destruição.

E quando alguém ousa falar a verdade, eles perseguem, censuram e eliminam.

Mas não há o que temer, nem lamentar, pois nenhum império durou para sempre na história da humanidade, e o deles não será exceção.

Hasta la victoria!

A blue more expensive than gold − ultramarine | Stories in Colour Podcast S2 Ep2 | National Gallery

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Travel with us beyond the sea to look at ultramarine, a pigment that was once even more precious than gold.

In this episode, writer Victoria Finlay joins Beks for a discussion on how researching ultramarine took her to Afghanistan. She journeyed to the blue mines where you can find lapis lazuli, the semi-precious stone ultramarine comes from. Along the journey, we pause to look at some of the National Gallery’s paintings – including one noteworthy for its lack of ultramarine...
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Victoria has written several books about colour - including 'Colour, Travels through the Paintbox' and 'The Brilliant History of Color in Art' - which involved travelling across the globe to the very places that ancient pigments and dyes came from. Her most recent book is about the hidden histories of fabric.
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You can email us with any questions via podcast@nationalgallery.org.uk

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🎨 Find out more about the artworks in this episode:

English or French (?), ‘The Wilton Diptych’, About 1395-9 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/english-or-french-the-wilton-diptych

Michelangelo, ‘The Entombment (or Christ being carried to his Tomb)’, About 1500-1 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/michelangelo-the-entombment-or-christ-being-carried-to-his-tomb

Sassoferrato, ‘The Virgin and Prayer’, 1640-50 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/sassoferrato-the-virgin-in-prayer

Titian, ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’, 1520-3 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/titian-bacchus-and-ariadne

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ‘The Umbrellas’, About 1881-6 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pierre-auguste-renoir-the-umbrellas

Claude Monet, ‘Irises’, About 1914-17 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-monet-irises

Paul Cezanne, ‘Hillside in Provence’, About 1890-2 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/paul-cezanne-hillside-in-provence
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Further reading:

Victoria Finlay, ‘Color: A Natural History of the Palette’, 2002

Victoria Finlay, ‘Colour: Travels through the Paintbox’, 2002

Victoria Finlay, ‘The Brilliant History of Color in Art’, 2014

Victoria Finlay, ‘Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World’, 2021

Cennino Cennini, ‘Il Libro dell'Arte’, produced in the late 14th-century

Find out more about Ultramarine in our ‘Chemistry of Colour’ YouTube series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EzUlnRtDGM
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Episode credits:

Guest: Victoria Finlay
Host and executive producer: Beks Leary  
Producer: Harry Rosehill  
Researcher: Hannah Rogers  
Technicians: Ian Warren and Tom Gulliver
Video Producers: Jeanne Kenyon and Alessandro Sorenti
Editor: Paul Frankl
Theme music: Theo Elwell

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Geociências no CINEMA - filmes para animar (ou não) sua tarde chuvosa

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No video de hoje temos uma lista de filmes com temas de geociências. Isso pra comemorar os dias das pessoas formadas em Geografia (29/05), Geologia (30/05) e Geofísica (31/05).
Eu compilei essa listona e apresento pra vocês em uma ordem da minha cabeça, sem dar nota pros filmes nem se preocupar muito se o filme está disponível em algum streaming.

Espero que vocês tenham gostado, me contem nos comentários se vocês sabem de outros filmes com temas de geografia, geologia ou geofísica, me conta qual desses da lista é seu preferido, veja se você continua inscrito no canal, deixe seu like.


No final comento sobre um artigo que fala sobre o papel do geólogo no cinema:
Geologists on the silver screen—the sequel
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.70014


Os filmes:

- Pompeia (2014)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1921064/

- O Inferno de Dante (1997)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118928/

- Volcano: A Fúria (1997)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/

- Into the Inferno (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846318/

- Crack in the World (1965)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/

- Earthquake (1974)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071455/

- Terremoto: A Falha de San Andreas (2015)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2126355/

- Earthquake (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5270810/

- Viagem ao Centro da Terra (1959)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052948/

- Viagem ao Centro da Terra (2008)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373051/

- O Núcleo: Missão ao Centro da Terra (2003)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

- Deepwater Horizon: Desastre no Golfo (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860357/

- Mar Em Chamas (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12753120/

- Gold – Ouro e Cobiça (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800302/

- Serra Pelada (2013)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140381/

- Impacto Profundo (1998)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/

- Armageddon (1998)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/
Bônus - comentário Ben Affleck - https://youtu.be/-ahtp0sjA5U?si=Cl1rAeKSXakMa8N

- Não Olhe para Cima (2021)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11286314/

- Rogue One: Uma História Star Wars (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3748528/

- Unconformity (2022)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12075908/

- Z: A Cidade Perdida (2016)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/

- O Inglês que Subiu a Colina e Desceu a Montanha (1995)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112966/

- The 33 (2015)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006295/

- Ammonite (2020)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7983894/

- The Dig (2021)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3661210/

- Jurassic Park (1993)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
Bônus 1 - Making Off Jurassic Park - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r01mk6F_Pk
Bônus 2 - How Jurassic Park Was Filmed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kMOGE-BaMw

- The Wave (2015)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3616916/
Bônus: Megatsunami de 524m - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_earthquake_and_megatsunami

- The Quake (2018)
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6523720/


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